Meaning

3 senses
  1. Fluttering.

    1888, W. B. Yeats, “King Gall” in uncredited editor, Poems and Ballads of Young Ireland, Dublin: M.H. Gill, p. 43, They will not hush, the leaves a-flutter round me—the beech leaves old

  2. Filled or covered (with something that flutters).

  3. In a state of tremulous excitement, anticipation or confusion.

    aufgeregt

    excited in anticipation

Translations

5 languages
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By meaning 1
in a state of excited anticipation:

Forms

more aflutter, most aflutter
Comparativemore aflutter Lesson
Superlativemost aflutter Lesson

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

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